Amputation Quote by Gail Caldwell Download Open image “Like a starfish, the heart endures its amputation.” — Gail Caldwell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Amputation Endure Heart Starfish
What happens to the rest of something when you smash its heart? — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
“The other thing I know now, is that we survive grief merely and surely by outlasting it. The ongoing fact of the narrative eclipses… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course. — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days. — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
The real hell of this," he told her, "is that you're going to get through it. — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
Grief doesn't necessarily make you noble. Sometimes it just makes you crazy, or primitive with fear. — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
You can’t change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didn’t make the mistake that might have saved… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
“From the first winter afternoon in the Harvard ball fields, "Oh no--I need you" had become an admission and a clarion call--the tenet of… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
“Most of us wander in and out of one another's lives until not death, but distance, does us part--time and space and the heart's… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part. — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
memory is both the curse of grief and the eventual talisman against it; what at first seems unbearable becomes the succor that can outlast… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
“As he defended the book one evening in the early 1980s at the Carnegie Endowment in New York, I knew that some of what… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
To my mind, healing means returning a malfunctioning human body to full unrestricted function, not to remove parts of it by operation or amputation — Rudolf Breuss Copy Share Image
Faint hearts are encouraged when they read about others who, despite amputation, spinal cord injury, or psychiatric disorders have a vibrant trust and confidence… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters, -… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think any break-up from a long relationship has this accompanying feeling of who am I without this person. You feel like a half-person… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
stop the darkness and its amputations and find the real McCoy in the private holiness of my hands. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Procrustes in modern dress, the nuclear scientist will prepare the bed on which mankind must lie; and if mankind doesn’t fit—well, that will be… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched one particularly… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
